FSN: Forensic Science News

When a lab has a pol­icy to delib­er­ately obfus­cate the results of foren­sic exam­i­na­tions, in order to sup­port the prosecution’s the­ory of the case, that’s gross insti­tu­tional bias.

They aren’t even try­ing to pre­tend to be fair, impar­tial scientists.

It might be time to con­sider hir­ing new employ­ees who haven’t been tainted with such unpro­fes­sional attitudes.

A judge should

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The fol­low­ing arti­cle sums up the prob­lems at the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation. Closing the lab, and start­ing anew with a lab that isn’t so indoc­tri­nated as an arm of the pros­e­cu­tion might be the only way for the pub­lic to have any faith in the results com­ing out of their state crime lab.

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It would appear every­one is hav­ing sim­i­lar reac­tions to the results of the North Carolina SBI crime lab review.

A review of the blood analy­sis unit at the State Bureau of Investigation’s crime lab found ana­lysts omit­ted, over­stated or falsely reported blood evi­dence in 230 cases – 190 of which went to trial.

Of those, 80 of the defendants

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It’s good to know the prosecutor’s office is going to review death penalty cases. Last thing peo­ple want is another case where an inno­cent per­son is put to death over faulty foren­sic analysis.

A North Carolina pros­e­cu­tor says he will scour all past homi­cide cases in his dis­trict for ques­tion­able work by the State Bureau of

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